Pirates win due to a complete game and some live bats, Rob Scuderireturns to the Pittsburgh Penguins What more could a man want?

You want to know what power looks like. It’s telling someone in of a higher status than you to do something and then having them do it. That happened yesterday between me and Francisco Liriano. In my preview I said this,

I guess if I could ask Liriano to do one thing it would be to consistently go 7+. That’s really splitting hairs though.

And he went right out there, took the bull by the horns, screamed “Okay, Rich”, and threw a complete game.

That’s what TiGO brings to the table. Never doubt my ability to squeeze every drop of production out of these guys.

Does anyone else just smile when they think of Charlie Morton? Not in a gay way or anything. He just makes me happy. He is a cool dude from what I understand and/or see and I’m glad to see him have any success. He’s a quiet, hardworking guy that cares about the world around him.

It’s nice to see that, especially when you spend your days being a sarcastic, miserable, prick like I do.

It’d be nice if he got some damn defense at some point. Maybe if he got to pitch to Russell Martin as well, but that might be asking a bit much.

Morton is keeping it on the ground and not surprisingly he’s finding good fortune.

Maybe good fortune is the wrong word. He’d probably have even better numbers by his name if he wasn’t getting such a thorough boning by the guys playing behind him.

Morton has six unearned runs. He only has five earned runs! The only other player on the team with more than 2 unearned runs is James McDonald and I am using “on the team” VERY loosely in regards to him.

Keep in mind Morton only has four starts, one of which went just 2.0 innings. That’s a crazy amount of unearned runs in so few innings.

The Cubs appear to like facing Morton, he’s been the suck against them. They make him sing the blues I bet.

Think about how bad those numbers are and consider that they include a complete game shutout. He’s had some very, very bad outings against the Cubs. Especially at Wrigley. Where he threw the complete game.

He hasn’t been so great against the Pirates this year but his last outing against them was actually quite good. The last thing we need is to be dominated by freaking EJax after all you twitter people begged him to come to the Burgh. And failed.

They just need to extend the outing, get him out of the game and work on this bullpen. Jackson has had a bunch of success in his career against the Bucs but he averages just under six innings per start. Plenty of time to do work, Pirate-style.